Fellows and Visiting Scholars in Byzantine Studies

The Byzantine Studies program at Dumbarton Oaks, since its establishment in 1940, has supported a continuous program of residential fellowships to enable historical, philological, art historical, archaeological, and theological research into the civilization of the Byzantine Empire and its interactions with neighboring cultures.

Tatiana Pentkovskaya (Moscow State University), “The Life of Basil the Younger (BHG 263): The Oldest Version in the Byzantine and Slavic Tradition: Critical Edition and Word Index of the Parallel Slavic and Greek Texts”

Linda Safran (The Catholic University of America), “Art and Identity in Medieval Southern Italy”

Summer Fellows

Francesca Dell'Acqua (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), “Glass in the Architectural Decoration of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Architecture: The Influence on the Medieval West”

Evangelia Hadjitryphonos (European Center of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments, Thessalonike), “Architecture of the Church of Hagia Aikaterini in Thessaloniki and Architecture of the Church of Moni Vlatadon”

Ivan Jordanov (Archaeological Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Science), “Corpus of the Byzantine Seals from Bulgaria, Part 1: The Byzantine Seals with Geographical Names”

Michaela Konrad (Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich), “The Northern Necropolis of Resafa: Burial Customs on the Syrian Border from the Third to the Sixth Century AD and the Evidence for the Local History of Resafa”

Jaclyn L. Maxwell (Western Michigan University), “Preaching to the Converted: John Chrysostom and his Audience in Antioch”

Maria Mavroudi (Stuttgart, Germany), “Three Catalogues on Graeco-Arabica, 7th–16th Century: A List of Bilingual Individuals; A List of Bilingual Manuscripts; A List of Translations from Arabic into Greek”

Summer Fellows

Ferhan Kırlıdökme (Ankara University), “Laonikos Chalkokondyles: Relations between Byzantium and the Ottoman State (1421–1463), Translation and Commentary of the Demonstrations of Histories, Books Ⅴ–Ⅹ”

Richard Layton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Redefining Virtue: Didymus the Blind and Ascetic Scholasticism in Late Antique Alexandria”

Angel Nicolaou-Konnar (University of Cyprus), “The Chronicle of Leontios Makhairas: A Study of its Sources and Nature with Relation to Byzantine and Western Historiography”

Maria Panayotidi-Kesisoglou (University of Athens), “Art in the Villages and the Problem of Local Workshops”

Ufuk Serin (Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, Rome), “The Religious Architecture in Iasos (of Caria) in the Early-Christian and Proto-Byzantine Ages in Relation to the Urban Development of the Site in the Same Period”

Tatiana Tsarevskaia (Novgorod State Museum), “The Frescoes of the Church of St. Theodore Stratilates in Novgorod and the 'Expressive' Trend of the Byzantine Painting in the Second Half of the 14th Century”

Holger Klein (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Fall), “Perceptions of Byzantium in Romanesque Europe: Byzantine Cross Reliquaries and their Impact on the Artistic Production of the West”

Junior Fellows

Veronica G. Kalas (New York University, Institute of Fine Arts), “The Rock-Cut Architecture of the Peristrema Valley, Western Cappadocia, in the Context of the Byzantine Revival of Asia Minor, Ninth to Eleventh Centuries”

Summer Fellow/Seminars

Summer Seminars

1992–1993

Visiting Fellows

Robert Browning

Venetian Exchange Fellow

John Osborne

Fellows

Dmitry E. Afinogenov (USSR Academy of Sciences' Institute of World History), “Social and Ideological Backgrounds of the Party Struggle Inside the Iconophile Church of Byzantium in the 9th Century and its Impact on Byzantine Literature”

Summer Fellows

Lyudmila Avilushkina (Leningrad State University), “Michael Glykas’ Chronicle: Its Role in the History of Byzantine Culture and Its Fate in the Post-Byzantine Period”

Vassa Contoumas-Conticello (Université de Paris-Sorbonne), “The Survival of Chalcedonian Orthodoxy in the Territories Lost by Byzantium in the First Centuries of the Muslim Conquest: Ioannes Damascenus (8th Century) and Theodorus Abu Qurra (9th Century)”

Susanna Elm (University of California, Berkeley), “Virgins of God: The Development of Female Asceticism in Fourth-Century Asia Minor and Egypt”

George Kakavas (University of Athens), “Dionysios of Fourna: His Life and Works”

Charles Conrad Leyser (Merton College), “A Comparison of Gregory the Great and St. Basil as Monastic Writers”

George Makris (Aschaffenburg, Germany), “Reedition of the Vita of St. Gregory the Decapolite”

Liliana Mavrodinova (Ivan Dujčev Center for Slavo-Byzantine Studies), “Characteristics and Development of the Iconography of the Gospel Cycle in Bulgarian Wall Painting, 10th to the End of the 14th Centuries”

Angeliki Mitsani (Byzantine Museum of Athens), “Centers of Production of Illustrated Manuscripts in Constantinople during the Second Half of the 11th Century”

Daphne Papadatou (University of Thessaloniki), “Institutions of Distributive Justice in the Palaiologan Period”

James Wiseman (Boston University), “History and Archeology at Stobi, Yugoslavia”

David H. Wright (University of California, Berkeley, Spring), “Western Evidence for Byzantine Art around the Year 800”

Joint Fellow Athens

Mary B. Cunningham (University of Birmingham), “The Homilies of Andreas of Crete: Their Place in the Byzantine Homiletic Tradition; Basil of Seleucia's Homily on Lazarus: A Critical Edition and Translation”

Summer Fellows

Helen Evans (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), “Two Narrative Gospels from the School of T'eres Roslin (Walters Art Gallery Ms. W539 and Freer Gallery of Art Ms. 32.18): The Hands of Illuminators and the Iconography of the Texts”

James D. Howard-Johnston (Oxford University), “The Revival of Byzantine Power in the Near East, 867–1025”

Ann Kuttner (University of California at Berkeley), “The David Plates of Heraclius: An Art Historical Excursus into Imperial Ideology”